Effect of edge-preserving adaptive image filter on low-contrast detectability in CT systems: Application of ROC analysis

International Journal of Biomedical Imaging

Volumn 2008, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Okumura, Miwa ^a   Ota, Takamasa ^b   Kainuma, Kazuhisa ^a   Sayre, James W ^c   McNitt Gray, Michael ^c   Katada, Kazuhiro ^d  

^a TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); WAVE FILTERS;

ADAPTIVE IMAGES; AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVES; CONTRAST PHANTOMS; CONTRAST RESOLUTIONS; CT SYSTEMS; DENOISING; DETECTABILITY; EDGE-PRESERVING; MULTISLICE CT; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTIONS; RADIATION DOSES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; ROC ANALYSIS; TUBE CURRENTS;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 57249084036     PISSN: 16874188     EISSN: 16874196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/379486     Document Type: Article

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